I was actually filling the sink with hot water just before I read your post @Biglad I thought slattern was quite a common term, although I believe it's mainly aimed at women. Typical. If it was a male blackbird, you could go for Marvin or Otis. Or the great Sam, as in Cooke
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When the boiler servicing man was here yesterday he left a door to the garden open and a robin flew in. It kept flying too high to go out through the living room door, eventually I shut the other doors and left it alone and it managed to find the way out. The room was quite cold by then. In the summer the garden door is open all the time and birds ignore it.
Cold this morning, only 1°, but sunny.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Brrr that’s chilly @Busy-Lizzie ☕️
It was dry here earlier but OH has just been out and reported that it’s raining ... that fine ‘very wet’ rain that soaks you through.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love frosty mornings @Busy-Lizzie. Much nicer than dank, damp ones. I think we have frost forecast for the end of next week after rain in the first half. That could change a hundred times before then though. You have 'the smirr' then @Dovefromabove
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Theres just something about it that looks like a shrike ... and although you don’t have them it was a clue ... they sound lovely birds with a melodic song and they mate for life.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lots of unidentifiable bird song here at the moment but, having seen teen warblers checking out the aphids on my hibiscus I assume some of them are responsible, and a robin and maybe a wren. Shy, those two. I like your bird @Pat E but maybe not the yelling. I doubt we'll ever have "tame" birds here @Fairygirl
@Busy-Lizzie We occasionally get a tit or a sparrow that flies down the chimney into the log burner and then flaps. Technique sorted now - remove the dogs, open the window on the south side and then open the fire door while standing to the left/east and they fly straight out.
2 or 3C at dawn this morning but better now and dry. Sunny with wispy clouds. Last night when I shut the hens up there were 2 huddled up in one box, 2 more snuggling in their own box, one balancing on the ladder up to the perch and one huddled right up in the corner, as usual, but on the new poo shelf! Maybe the perch will get used next spring when it's warmer and they have all their feathers and more muscles.
Those woollies are a hoot @Dovefromabove but I'll let them grow their feathers as they have bare bums, tums and backs and very scrappy tails. Only getting one or two eggs a day at the mo so no need for an egg skirt either. On the other hand, I do have to have made a Convergence quilt by November 5th and have made a start on a Twister quilt so there will be patchwork of a sort going on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Flippin ‘eck @Obelixx I just googled; I think a Convergence quilt would give me a migraine just to look at it. 🥴 but beautiful ... OH says the patterns remind him of 89’s New Wave album covers. 😎
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi everyone, just caught up again. Sorry I missed your Birthday @Fairygirl & very belated Anniversary @chicky. So we are in level 2 now & family are in level 1 - I guess it will have to be doorstep deliveries for their dinners now as they STILL have no kitchen, and it's unlikely to be installed for another month. OH is spending hours doing on line shopping (mostly food for them) so I don't get on the laptop so often at the mo.
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i thought it looked a bit like a shrike ... but apparently you don’t have them in Aus ... but you do have the Shrike-thrush.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I thought slattern was quite a common term, although I believe it's mainly aimed at women. Typical.
If it was a male blackbird, you could go for Marvin or Otis. Or the great Sam, as in Cooke
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When the boiler servicing man was here yesterday he left a door to the garden open and a robin flew in. It kept flying too high to go out through the living room door, eventually I shut the other doors and left it alone and it managed to find the way out. The room was quite cold by then. In the summer the garden door is open all the time and birds ignore it.
Cold this morning, only 1°, but sunny.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You have 'the smirr' then @Dovefromabove
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Theres just something about it that looks like a shrike ... and although you don’t have them it was a clue ... they sound lovely birds with a melodic song and they mate for life.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Busy-Lizzie We occasionally get a tit or a sparrow that flies down the chimney into the log burner and then flaps. Technique sorted now - remove the dogs, open the window on the south side and then open the fire door while standing to the left/east and they fly straight out.
2 or 3C at dawn this morning but better now and dry. Sunny with wispy clouds. Last night when I shut the hens up there were 2 huddled up in one box, 2 more snuggling in their own box, one balancing on the ladder up to the perch and one huddled right up in the corner, as usual, but on the new poo shelf! Maybe the perch will get used next spring when it's warmer and they have all their feathers and more muscles.
Those woollies are a hoot @Dovefromabove but I'll let them grow their feathers as they have bare bums, tums and backs and very scrappy tails. Only getting one or two eggs a day at the mo so no need for an egg skirt either. On the other hand, I do have to have made a Convergence quilt by November 5th and have made a start on a Twister quilt so there will be patchwork of a sort going on.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So we are in level 2 now & family are in level 1 - I guess it will have to be doorstep deliveries for their dinners now as they STILL have no kitchen, and it's unlikely to be installed for another month. OH is spending hours doing on line shopping (mostly food for them) so I don't get on the laptop so often at the mo.